Sony Online Entertainment Layoffs

MeshModeler

a lot of my good friends from the planetside 2 team are gone. sad sad days.

https://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/index.php?threads%2Fsoe-announcement.539056%2F#post-5961026

ExcessiveZero

All I know is when a big company like SOE does something like this its just for More money for investors, less for people who actually make shit.

SOE for sure is the kind of company to do a big push make a big game, then it gives everyone the sack and mans their games with skeleton crews.

ErichWK

Don't they need all those artists for Everquest Next?

Striff

I worked there for 2 years before I decided to get out of the industry. Sad to see a former company not do well, but I have to say the level of talent that is working there now seems a lot higher than when I was working there back in 2006.

Striff

MeshModeler, if you can answer, do you think that the new Player Studio in PS2 made some members of the team more expendable?

Autocon

Really sad to hear about this having lots of friends there from when I interned

I believe they cut all teams that were not the EQNext team. IE Plantside 2, Free Realms, Clone Wars (as the TV show is gone so is new content for the game) Really high number of people let go from what I am hearing.

reverendK

more jobs gone in san diego. ugh.

[HP]

Damn... this is horrible news. Sony teams have been very stable these last few years.

cochtl

Wha? Stable? If you mean having a job that is contingent on the amount of time left on the project with no thought put into the future of the team and with shareholder interests placed above developers' efforts, then yes, by all accounts lots of studios are stable. Carry on.

Bobby J Rice 3rd

[HP] wrote: »

Damn... this is horrible news. Sony teams have been very stable these last few years.

ND, Santa Monica,..maybe. I wonder how much of that was contract.

Rurouni Strife

Contract and temp workers typically don't get announced as laid off. It's on of the benefits to the companies that use contract workers. Your contract ends and you're gone. The studio doesn't have to announce anything since you don't technically work for Sony/Microsoft/Activision/ect.

Alphavader

sad news
time to learn programming...

RMeeks

^, best of luck to those affected.

*I said sad news as well...*